Katja Novitskova

b. 1984 in Tallinn (Estonia); lives and works between Berlin (Germany) and Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Katja Novitskova’s sculptures and installations explore the tension between the Internet and the physical world. They are based on images sourced from the Internet or everyday objects which she reworks, endowing them with a new, singular, disturbing state of being.

Novitskova’s work has been shown at the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Kunstverein Hannover (Hanover), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.

Works

La vie moderne

PATTERN OF ACTIVATION (planetary bonds), Création Biennale 2015

The installation that Katja Novitskova has created for the Biennale is based on the realisation that our perception of reality has been altered by advances in digital technology; the line demarcating the natural world from its technological rendering has dissolved. In a room filled with silver paint, mobile mechanical sculptures made from swings for babies, painted in bright colours and with elaborate patterns, take on a new life as strange creatures made from the most synthetic materials possible: industrial plastic, silicone fishing bait, hair extensions and sheets of polyurethane printed with images of protein folds printed on them. In resonance with the Rosetta mission at NASA and the European Space Agency, two sculptures representing the surface of the comet act as a further environment for the robots.